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Introduction: My approach to this project ; My experience on the street ; A brief history of the homeless mentally ill ; Paths to becoming mentally ill and homeless ; Barely getting by ; Against all odds ; Breaking the cycle of social stigma -- Images and stories: "I used to live in a home. Now I live in a cardboard box." (Mary) ; "The angels of suffering are screeching at me!" (David) ; "Is that all you could get me?" (Daniel) ; "He needs to see I've done my penance." (Barbara) ; The chess game ; Man examining his sock ; "The world ended in 1967, and there's no place to go." (man with his bicycle) ; Woman with her sleeping bag (Alexandra) ; "I'm gonna die sooner or later. I don't really care when. I'm too sad." (Tatanka Luta) ; "I was four years on death row." (man with his dog) ; "My two daughters were blown to bits by suicide bombers in Iraq." (Heidi) ; "Well, I don't know what rock bottom is, if this isn't it. I have nothing left!" (Ryan) ; "Sometimes I get tired of having a roof over my head." (Linda) ; "I've traded my pain medication away for crack." (Gregg) ; "I'm sure my mom didn't want to give me away." (man with his daffy tie) ; "I fell from the Empire State Building to the curb." (Bridgett) ; "One day you're going to kill me!" (James) ; "I'm immune to pain in my body, but when someone hurts my feelings, it makes me feel real sad and I cry." (Erradyse) ; "If you have no teeth, it's proof you've fucked up real bad -- that you must be nothing but a fuck-up!" (Jeff) ; "I don't sleep. I don't eat." (Michael) ; "My mother must have known what my father was doing even before he raped me." (Rebecca) ; "I'm goin' to sell these shoes for 10,000." (the shoe salesman) ; "Too many people are dead here." (woman from Honolulu) ; "After my first kill, it got to be nothing." (Walter) ; "I sleep where the frog people live." (Rhonda) ; The gang: Max, Sabrina, and Jed ; "I'm not proud of some of the shit I did." (Max) ; "Now I'm here, and I'm not quite sure where I'm going." (Sabrina) ; "I come to San Francisco to die." (Jed) ; "Someone broke into my hotel room and stole my eye." (Rose) ; "It's hard having a relationship when you're living on the streets." (Donna) ; "The devil is here!" (Maria) ; "Whenever I live inside, I start thinking about what I've lost." (Jonathan) ; Man with a cane (Jessie) ; "My mama traded my bicycle for a six-pack of booze." (Lee) ; "Life on the streets isn't easy, but it's not desperately hard." ; "The psych meds made me itch so bad I couldn't stop scratching myself." ; "Everyone says how tough it is to be homeless, I'm good at it." (Vince) ; "I was like a wolf. I'd only come out at night." (Don) ; "Some days, I wake up not knowing who I am." (George) ; "I won't touch the dead branches of your filth." (Klauss) ; "Then in a matter of 2001, one of these little helicopters came down and shot me in the butt with a beangun." (Robert) -- Conclusion: Appendix A: what is needed ; Appendix B: history of the homeless mentally ill. |
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